{"id":1300127,"date":"2024-02-23T03:23:17","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T09:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1300127"},"modified":"2024-02-25T10:18:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T16:18:22","slug":"leaders-met-to-push-the-jenna-quinn-law-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1300127","title":{"rendered":"Leaders met to push Jenna Quinn Law through"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"SMITH COUNTY \u00e2\u20ac\u201d According to our news partner KETK, Texas leaders met in Smith County to push the Jenna Quinn Law through the U.S. House of Representatives. Lawmakers met at the Smith County Advocacy Center in Tyler to discuss Jenna\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Law, a bill aimed at preventing sexual abuse of children on a national level. If passed, the bill will center around giving teachers, educators and care givers adequate training and identify, prevent and report child sexual abuse. The bill received its name from Jenna Quinn, a child sexual abuse survivor, and is now an outspoken advocate for survivors of child sexual abuse.<\/p>\n

Quinn is spearheading the bill with Sen. John Cornyn and Texas Rep. Nathaniel Moran to empower young victims. The bill will give almost $170 million of funding from the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act. The law has passed in 35 states so far and Quinn said it proves that the legislation works. Moran said more than 42 million children are abused in the nation and believes that statistic will bring both sides of the aisle together to help give a voice to those who cannot speak for themselves.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Not everybody knows how to identify children who are being sexually abused and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s why some of the money Congress appropriates for child abuse prevention is available for training,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Senator John Cornyn said.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Its a real epidemic it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s something we need to address and address quickly sternly and address it until it gets solved,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Moran.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153After Jenna\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s law training, educators are four times more likely to report before their pre-training careers,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Quinn said.<\/p>\n

Moran expects bipartisan support for Jenna\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s law.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I suspect we will see large bipartisan support at the committee level before it gets to the floor. I think this is an issue where all Democrats and Republicans can come together and agree we must protect children,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Moran said.<\/p>\n

Quinn said that children see their teachers the most and its important that they are a safe person that they can confide in.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really important for school employees and educators because we know educators make up 52% of the reports that go into the system,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Quinn said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Educators are reporting more than any group out there and so they are the ones that are around the children and youth hours at a time everyday so they are the ones that can really pick up on those key indicators.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

The bill will first be presented to the Education Workforce Committee before going to the House floor. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SMITH COUNTY \u00e2\u20ac\u201d According to our news partner KETK, Texas leaders met in Smith County to push the Jenna Quinn Law through the U.S. House of Representatives. Lawmakers met at the Smith County Advocacy Center in Tyler to discuss Jenna\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Law, a bill aimed at preventing sexual abuse of children on a national level. If … Continue reading Leaders met to push Jenna Quinn Law through<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1300130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/02\/2024-02-23_032255-225x145.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Leaders met to push the Jenna Quinn Law through","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1300127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 11:49:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/02\/2024-02-23_032255-225x145.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Leaders met to push the Jenna Quinn Law through","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1300127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1300132,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300127\/revisions\/1300132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1300130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1300127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1300127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1300127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}